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קָרָא

qa.rato call: call toHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb733 occurrences37 books687 verses

Definition

a primitive root (rather identical with H7122 through the idea of accosting a person met); to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
Traditional renderings: bewray (self), that are bidden, call (for, forth, self, upon), cry (unto), (be) famous, guest, invite, mention, (give) name, preach, (make) proclaim(-ation), pronounce, publish, read, renowned, say.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders קָרָא:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

733 total
  1. Isaiah 66:4קָרָ֙אתִי֙ · I called
    So I will choose their punishment and I will bring terror upon them, because I called and no one answered, I spoke and no one listened. But they did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”
  2. Jeremiah 1:15קֹרֵ֗א · I am about to summon
    For I am about to summon all the clans and kingdoms of the north,” declares the LORD. “Their kings will come and set up their thrones at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem. They will attack all her surrounding walls and all the other cities of Judah.
  3. Jeremiah 2:2וְקָֽרָאתָ֩ · and proclaim
    “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
  4. Jeremiah 3:4קָרָאתִי · called
    Have you not just called to Me, ‘My Father, You are my friend from youth.
  5. Jeremiah 3:12וְקָֽרָאתָ֩ · proclaim
    Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever.
  6. Jeremiah 3:17יִקְרְא֤וּ · they will call
    At that time they will call Jerusalem The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations will be gathered in Jerusalem to honor the name of the LORD. They will no longer follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts.
  7. Jeremiah 3:19תִּקְרְאוּ · you would call Me
    Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!’ I thought you would call Me ‘Father’ and never turn away from following Me.
  8. Jeremiah 4:5קִרְא֤וּ · Cry aloud
    Announce in Judah, proclaim in Jerusalem, and say: “Blow the ram’s horn throughout the land. Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves and let us flee to the fortified cities.’
  9. Jeremiah 4:20נִקְרָ֔א · is proclaimed
    Disaster after disaster is proclaimed, for the whole land is laid waste. My tents are destroyed in an instant, my curtains in a moment.
  10. Jeremiah 6:30קָרְא֖וּ · They are called
    They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”
  11. Jeremiah 7:2וְקָרָ֣אתָ · and proclaim
    “Stand in the gate of the house of the LORD and proclaim this message: Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah who enter through these gates to worship the LORD.
  12. Jeremiah 7:10נִקְרָא־ · which bears
    …and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’?
  13. Jeremiah 7:11נִקְרָֽא־ · bears
    Has this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD.
  14. Jeremiah 7:13וָאֶקְרָ֥א · and I have called
    And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but you would not answer,
  15. Jeremiah 7:14נִֽקְרָא־ · bears
    …therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers.
  16. Jeremiah 7:27וְקָרָ֥אתָ · When you call
    When you tell them all these things, they will not listen to you. When you call to them, they will not answer.
  17. Jeremiah 7:30נִקְרָא־ · bears
    For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.
  18. Jeremiah 9:17וְקִרְא֥וּ · and summon
    This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.
  19. Jeremiah 10:25קָרָ֑אוּ · call
    Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his homeland.
  20. Jeremiah 11:6קְרָ֨א · Proclaim
    Then the LORD said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Hear the words of this covenant and carry them out.
  21. Jeremiah 11:14קָרְאָ֥ם · when they call out
    As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me in their time of disaster.
  22. Jeremiah 11:16קָרָ֥א · once called
    The LORD once called you a flourishing olive tree, beautiful with well-formed fruit. But with a mighty roar He will set it on fire, and its branches will be consumed.
  23. Jeremiah 12:6קָרְא֥וּ · have cried
    Even your brothers—your own father’s household—even they have betrayed you; even they have cried aloud against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you.
  24. Jeremiah 14:9נִקְרָ֖א · and we are called
    Why are You like a man taken by surprise, like a warrior powerless to save? Yet You are among us, O LORD, and we are called by Your name. Do not forsake us!
  25. Jeremiah 15:16נִקְרָ֤א · I bear
    Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts.
  26. Jeremiah 19:2וְקָרָ֣אתָ · Proclaim
    …and go out to the Valley of Ben-hinnom near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you,
  27. Jeremiah 19:6יִקָּרֵא֩ · be called
    So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.
  28. Jeremiah 20:3קָרָ֤א · call
    The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The LORD does not call you Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.
  29. Jeremiah 20:8אֶקְרָ֑א · I proclaim
    For whenever I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and destruction. For the word of the LORD has become to me a reproach and derision all day long.
  30. Jeremiah 23:6יִקְרְא֖וֹ · He will be called
    In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is His name by which He will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.
  31. Jeremiah 25:29נִֽקְרָא־ · bears; קֹרֵא֙ · am calling down
    For behold, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears My Name, so how could you possibly go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the LORD of Hosts.’
  32. Jeremiah 29:12וּקְרָאתֶ֤ם · Then you will call
    Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
  33. Jeremiah 29:29וַיִּקְרָ֛א · however, had read
    (Zephaniah the priest, however, had read this letter to Jeremiah the prophet.)
  34. Jeremiah 30:17קָ֣רְאוּ · they call
    But I will restore your health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they call you an outcast, Zion, for whom no one cares.”
  35. Jeremiah 31:6קָרְא֥וּ · will call out
    For there will be a day when watchmen will call out on the hills of Ephraim, ‘Arise, let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God!’”
  36. Jeremiah 32:34נִקְרָֽא־ · bears
    They have placed their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.
  37. Jeremiah 33:3קְרָ֥א · Call
    Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
  38. Jeremiah 33:16יִקְרָא־ · by which it will be called
    In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely, and this is the name by which it will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.
  39. Jeremiah 34:8לִקְרֹ֥א · to proclaim
    After King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty, the word came to Jeremiah from the LORD
  40. Jeremiah 34:15לִקְרֹ֥א · of you proclaimed; נִקְרָ֥א · bears
    Recently you repented and did what pleased Me; each of you proclaimed freedom for his neighbor. You made a covenant before Me in the house that bears My Name.
  41. Jeremiah 34:17לִקְרֹ֣א · you have not proclaimed; קֹרֵא֩ · I proclaim
    Therefore this is what the LORD says: You have not obeyed Me; you have not proclaimed freedom, each man for his brother and for his neighbor. So now I proclaim freedom for you, declares the LORD—freedom to fall by sword, by plague, and by famine! I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
  42. Jeremiah 35:17וָאֶקְרָ֥א · and I have called
    Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will bring to Judah and to all the residents of Jerusalem all the disaster I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken to them but they have not obeyed, and I have called to them but they have not answered.’”
  43. Jeremiah 36:4וַיִּקְרָ֣א · called
    So Jeremiah called Baruch son of Neriah, and at the dictation of Jeremiah, Baruch wrote on a scroll all the words that the LORD had spoken to Jeremiah.
  44. Jeremiah 36:6וְקָרָ֣אתָ · you are to read; תִּקְרָאֵֽם׃ · Read them
    …so you are to go to the house of the LORD on a day of fasting, and in the hearing of the people you are to read the words of the LORD from the scroll you have written at my dictation. Read them in the hearing of all the people of Judah who are coming from their cities.
  45. Jeremiah 36:8לִקְרֹ֥א · he read
    So Baruch son of Neriah did everything that Jeremiah the prophet had commanded him. In the house of the LORD he read the words of the LORD from the scroll.
  46. Jeremiah 36:9קָרְא֨וּ · was proclaimed
    Now in the ninth month of the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, a fast before the LORD was proclaimed to all the people of Jerusalem and all who had come there from the cities of Judah.